The Book of the Knight of the Tower

Manners for Young Medieval Women

By: Rebecca Barnhouse

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Hardcover | 1 June 2006 | Edition Number 1

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In 1372 a French knight compiled a book of stories to teach his three daughters how to be good wives and good Christians. Here these tales are retold and interspersed with commentary about life in the late Middle Ages—what people wore, how they prayed, what they hoped for in this life and the next. The knight’s stories range from the shockingly bawdy to the deeply pious. They include devils and miracles, fashionable ladies and haughty knights, lecherous monks and disobedient wives—all told to help the knight’s daughters avoid what he calls blame, shame, and defame.

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Foreword	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. vii
The Knight and His Book
The World of the Book	p. 3
Shining Knights and Ladies Fair-Sir Geoffrey and His Family	p. 3
I Wanted to Make Them a Little Book-Sir Geoffrey's Manuscript for His Daughters	p. 8
Begun and Finished in One Day-William Caxton's Version	p. 10
Medieval Bestsellers-Books of Courtesy and Instruction	p. 13
The Retelling	p. 21
The Book of the Knight of the Tower
The Prologues	p. 27
Because I am Ignorant-Caxton's Prologue	p. 27
Blame, Shame, and Defame-Sir Geoffrey's Prologue	p. 31
Turn Your Hearts to God-Prayer	p. 39
Driving the Devil Out-Fasting and Confessing Your Sins	p. 53
A Full Belly Will Never Be Devout-Fasting	p. 53
Black Spots on a Silver Plate-Confessing Your Sins	p. 59
Hearing God's Service-Going to Mass	p. 65
Taming the Sparrowhawk-Manners and Marriage	p. 75
Obey Without Complaint-Being a Wife	p. 85
Beat Them When They Deserve It-Raising Children	p. 101
I Tell You, I Must Have It-Medieval Fashion	p. 115
Hearts Set on This World-Acting Fashionably	p. 133
Chide to This Wisp of Straw-Arguing	p. 135
When the Dancing and Singing Begins-Jousts and Feasts	p. 142
Not for Fun, but for Devotion-Pilgrimages	p. 150
As Fire Kindles Straw-Love and Its Games	p. 155
The Devil's Subtle Craft-Vice and Sin	p. 175
Listening to the Serpent-The Nine Follies of Eve	p. 176
Juggling Coal into Beauty-Flattery	p. 179
Like a Toad on the Heart-Anger	p. 180
Gold, the Devil's Servant-Greed	p. 182
Living like a Beast-Gluttony	p. 186
Joined like a Dog to a Bitch-Lechery	p. 188
True Women and Good Ladies-Virtuous Living	p. 195
Good Ladies of the Present Time	p. 206
Praising Past Time	p. 213
Caxton's Epilogue	p. 223
Notes	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 245
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